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Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.
It is the AID's intention to create in the library `` a miniature museum of Americana '' before completed refurbishing is unveiled early this fall.
He pointed out to the young musicians that the National Gallery `` is the only museum in the country to have a full-time music director, Richard Bales.
Last year Beyeler arranged to sell $1,500,000 worth of Klees to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will house them in a museum that is yet to be built.
Another haloed Apollo in mosaic, from Hadrumentum, is in the museum at Sousse.
The Museum of Work, or Arbetets museum, is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden.
It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.
The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.
The home is not a museum, so only the outside murals are able to be seen by the public.
There is a small museum called Casa de la Máscara ( House of Masks ) which is dedicated to masks, most of them from Mexico but there are examples from many parts of the world.
Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.
It would be a mistake to praise Warhol for the design of his boxes ( which were designed by Steve Harvey ), yet the conceptual move of exhibiting these boxes as art in a museum together with other kinds of paintings is Warhol's.
* Pictures of the Aster CT-80 model one from a Spanish computer museum, the educational model with an opening for a cassette player is the one on the right
It is now a museum.
Preventive conservation is an important element of museum policy and collections care.
It is an essential responsibility of members of the museum profession to create and maintain a protective environment for the collections in their care, whether in store, on display, or in transit.
A lift will take visitors almost to the top – to the attic, where there is a small museum which contains large models of the Arc and tells its story from the time of its construction.
His apartment is now a museum.
One of the recent attractions is the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, a museum ship now moored at the former Naval Air Station as the USS Hornet Museum.
The Schwarzwälder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof is an open-air museum that shows the life of sixteenth or seventeenth century farmers in the region, featuring a number of reconstructed Black Forest farms.
The operating theatre of the University of Leiden in which he once worked as an anatomist is now at the center of a museum named after him ; the Boerhaave Museum.
The museum is run by the Codes and Ciphers Heritage Trust ( an independent registered charity ) and is open to the public.

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In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.
The museum annex houses an Air France Concorde ; the Enola Gay B-29 ; the Space Shuttle Discovery ; the Boeing 367 – 80, which was the prototype of the Boeing 707 ; the SR-71 ; and other famous aerospace artifacts, particularly those too large for the main building on the National Mall.
The museum features an eclectic collection of antiques ( particularly electronics and arcade games ) and dozens of examples of proprietor John Preble's folk art, which ranges from the whimsical to the macabre.
Located in downtown's restored railroad depot, the museum offers a nostalgic look at the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the lumbering era.
This museum dedicated to the region's culture and history is arranged particularly authentically.
To celebrate the centenary of the opening of the Lenk line, in June 2012, the MOB is arranging a week of festivities with a dinner, special fares and operation and display of rolling stock usually to be found on museum lines, particularly that at Blonay-Chamby.
The museum holds several collections and exhibits particularly featuring natural history and famously houses Mammoth bone fossils.
Quite a few fossil specimens have also been collected there, particularly ammonites and the prehistoric marine reptile Yezosaurus mikasaensis, both of which can be viewed at the city's natural history museum.
The museum has a particularly extensive collection of Turner, which has its origins in a set of 25 watercolour drawings donated to the university by John Ruskin in 1861.
Three particularly complex, and still working and functional dolls are housed at the art and history museum in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, now known as the Jaquet-Droz automata.
In addition to offering many cultural benefits, including a nationally recognized contemporary art museum and a world-renowned writers institute, UAlbany plays a major role in the economic development of the Capital District and New York State particularly through its programs in nanosciences and nanotechnology and in the biotechnology and biomedical sciences.
The museum of the Rila Monastery is particularly famous for housing Rafail's Cross, a wooden cross made from a whole piece of wood ( 81 × 43 cm ).
The mineral specimens he amassed were instrumental in creating the mineral collections of the Smithsonian in Washington DC, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, University of Alberta, and the museum particularly dear to his heart, the Redpath Museum at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Other museums in the city are Pokhara Regional Museum, an ethnographic museum, Annapurna Natural History Museum which houses preserved specimens of flora and fauna, and contains particularly extensive collection of the butterflies, found in the Western and ( ACAP ) region of Nepal ; and Gurkha Museum featuring history of the Gurkha Soldiers.
The museum has a permanent collection with an emphasis on photography, particularly the works of Kineo Kuwabara and Kōji Morooka.
They had particularly dedicated the Temple of the Sibyl as a museum and memorial to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that was in their lifetimes, in the 18th century, partitioned out of political existence by the neighboring Russian, Prussian and Austrian empires.
Local attractions include the abundant wild flowers in the spring, the opportunity to see Venetian and Byzantine wall paintings in some of the local churches ( those in Anidri and Voutas being particularly impressive ), and a museum dedicated to the Acretans in the town itself.
The museum features an extensive collection of around 6, 500 pieces composed of pre-Columbian and traditional artifacts, particularly a large permanent Taíno exhibit, as well as 20th century arts and crafts, graphics and popular media.
Although none of the vehicles in the museum are still used or fielded by the Russian military, many of the exhibits ( particularly of one-of-a-kind experimental vehicles ) are still considered secret by the museum.
They particularly liked the scenes in Hell where Homer is punished by the Devil, and Chief Wiggum's attempts to deal with Dracula ( whom he thinks is a mummy ) in the " Bart Simpson's Dracula " segment by ordering the Egyptian wing of the Springfield museum to be destroyed.
The museum also has extensive galleries of model ships, including one with historic model ships built entirely from cardboard or paper as well as a particularly fine bone model of the French warship Vengeur du Peuple which was built around 1800 by French prisoners of war, a Children's Maritime Discovery Centre, a recreation of the forecastle of Vancouver's ship Discovery, an extensive collection of maritime art, and a large library and archives.
After her death the museum held an exhibition in her honour, featuring work by artists, such as Patrick Scott and Sean Scully who she particularly favoured.
Alongside the church is a small municipal museum, with exhibits on the local culture ( particularly native healing techniques ) and a section dealing with the massacres of the 1980s.

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